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Ontario reports 135 new COVID-19 cases, 4 more deaths
Ontario is reporting 135 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday and four additional deaths.
Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 26 new cases in Toronto, 16 in Peel Region, 13 in Durham Region, 12 in the Region of Waterloo, and 10 in Middlesex-London.
There are currently 145 patients in intensive care with COVID-related critical illness and 70 on ventilators.
The province says 140,491 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine were administered Tuesday for a total of nearly 18.5 million.
Of the province’s 626 long-term care homes, at least five are in an outbreak including Arbour Creek Long-Term Care Centre in Hamilton, St. Joseph’s Villa in Dundas, and The Village of Tansley Woods in Burlington.
An active COVID-19 outbreak indicates that the home has at least one lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 (in resident or staff) and the local public health unit or the home has declared an outbreak.
Here are the COVID-19 numbers for our region:
Hamilton
- 21,487 total cases
- 20,498 resolved cases
- 99 active cases
- 400 deaths
- 34 in hospital
Niagara Region
Niagara Region has not yet updated data from July 20
- 16,311 total cases (July 20)
- 15,842 resolved cases (July 20)
- 51 active cases (July 20)
- 418 deaths (July 20)
- 3 in hospital (July 20)
Halton Region
Halton Region has not yet updated data from July 20
- 18,119 total cases (July 20)
- 17,835 resolved cases (July 20)
- 49 active cases (July 20)
- 235 deaths (July 20)
- 9 in hospital (July 20)
Brant
- 3,428 total cases
- 3,398 resolved cases
- 10 active cases
- 20 deaths
- 0 in hospital
Haldimand-Norfolk
- 2,724 total cases
- 2,661 resolved cases
- 9 active cases
- 48 deaths
